NASA's Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC) released the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data 30 meter (GFSAD30) Cropland Extent data products.The monitoring of global cropland extent is critical for policymaking and provides important baseline data that are used in many agricultural cropland studies pertaining to water sustainability and food security. The GFSAD30 collection provides cropland extent data across the globe, divided and distributed into 7 separate regional datasets, for nominal year 2015 (2010 for North America) at 30 meter resolution. Additionally, the validation dataset used to conduct an independent accuracy assessment of global cropland extent is available.

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NSIDC DAAC has published the dataset Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)/Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) Sea Ice Cover 6-Min Level 2 (L2) Swath 375 m (VNP29). The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sea ice cover algorithm has been specifically designed to be compatible with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra and Aqua Version 6 sea ice datasets, to ensure continuity between the products and facilitate a climate-data record from the three sensors. This dataset is currently being generated by our data provider and delivered to NSIDC DAAC as the files are produced. As such, data will only be available for limited date ranges until processing has been completed. When finished, the temporal coverage will span 1 January 2012 to present. VIIRS flies on board the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi-NPP satellite and acquires visible and infrared imagery and radiometric measurements of the land, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans.

NASA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC) published the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) dataset ABoVE: Last Day of Spring Snow, Alaska, USA, and Yukon Territory, Canada, 2000-2016. This dataset provides the last day of spring snow cover for most of Alaska and the Yukon Territory for 2000 through 2016. The data are based on the MODIS daily snow cover fraction product (MODSCAG) and are provided at 500-m resolution.

ORNL DAAC published a new dataset MODIS Collection 6 Land Product Subsets Web Service. The MODIS Web Service provides data access capabilities for MODIS Collection 6 land products. The web service provides data access functions for users to execute on their local computing resources.

The India Annual Winter Cropped Area, v1 (2001-2016) dataset was released 10 November in production as part of NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) India data collection. These data consist of annual winter cropped areas for most of India (except the Northeastern states) from 2000-2001 to 2015-2016. This dataset utilizes the MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI; spatial resolution: 250m) for the winter growing season (October-March). The data are based on an automated algorithm that identifies the EVI peak in each pixel for each year and linearly scales the EVI value between 0% and 100% cropped area within that particular pixel. Data were validated using high-resolution QuickBird, RapidEye, SkySat, and WorldView-2 images spanning 2008 to 2016 across 11 different agricultural regions of India.